Greater Nashua
Nashua Chamber Orchestra concerts set for May 31 in Nashua, June 1 in Milford
The Nashua Chamber Orchestra, directed by David Feltner, will host its season finale, Beethoven’s Fifth, on May 31 and June 1. Soloist, Yuxuan (Daniel) Ma, is featured in the R. Strauss First Horn Concerto. In addition to the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the program also includes Robert Edward Smith’s Variations on America, and Dance of the Blessed Spirits, by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. on May 31 at Nashua Community College, 505 Amherst St., in Judd Gregg Hall; and at 3 p.m. on June 1 at Milford Town Hall on the Milford Oval. The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony - ta ta ta TAM! - are indisputably the most widely recognized theme in all of Western classical music. Those four authoritative notes exemplify the composer’s (1750—1827) defiant nature in the face of his encroaching deafness, Fate’s inexorable blow. What most ...
